For more than a quarter century, cotton and wilkinson's advanced inorganic chemistry has been the source that students and professional chemists have turned to for the background needed to understand current research literature in inorganic chemistry and aspects of organometallic chemistry. Like its predecessors, this updated sixth edition is organized around the periodic table of elements and provides a systematic treatment of the chemistry of all chemical elements and their compounds. It incorporates important recent developments with an emphasis on advances in the interpretation of structure, bonding and reactivity. · survey of principles · the chemistry of the main group elements · the chemistry of the transition elements · the role of organometallic chemistry in catalysis - from Amzon